The Lion and Lamb: Director's Book Choices

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Message from Director Louise Matthews:

     It’s always been difficult for me to limit my pile of children’s books to a small stack.  However, my favorites include those that address issues from a fresh perspective, that inspire or challenge, that broaden perspectives and that provide a relevant and understandable message for children.  Director’s Choice includes such titles that fit into the mission of The Lion and Lamb:
“… promotes the study of peace and justice, cultural understanding and nonviolent responses to conflict.” 

The Big Book for Peace
Ann Durell & Marilyn Sachs

Paths to Peace:
People Who Changed the World
Jane Breskin Zalben

Somewhere Today: A Book of Peace
Shelly Moore Thomas  
Eric Futran  

Can you Say Peace
Karen Katz

The Sun and the Wind
Cornelia Lehn
Robert W. Regier

I Call My Hand Gentle
 Amanda Haan
Marina Sagona

Enemy Pie
Derek Munson
Tara Calahan King

Cups Held Out
Judith L. Roth
Brooke Rothshank


Don't Laugh at Me
 Steve Seskin & Allen Shamblin
Glin Dibley
                       

The Other Side
 Jacqueline Woodson
E. B. Lewis

 
 


Across the Alley
 Richard Michelson
E.B. Lewis

Tear Soup:
A Recipe for Healing After Loss
 Pat Schwiebert & Chuck DeKlyen
Taylor Bills

 

A Pen Pal for Max
 Gloria Rand
Ted Rand
                       

One Green Apple
 Eve Bunting
Ted Lewin

 

Praying With Our Feet
 Lisa D. Weaver
Ingrid Hess

Feathers and Fools
 Mem Fox
Nickolas Wilton

 

 

Hey, Little Ant
 Phillip & Hannah Hoose
Debbie Tilley

Plant a Seed of Peace
 Rebecca Seiling
Brooke Rothshank

 

Boxes for Katje
Candace Fleming 
Stacey Dressen-McQueen

Old Turtle
 Douglas Wood
Cheng-Khee Chee

 

The Story of Ruby Bridges
 Robert Coles
George Ford

 People
Peter Spier

Make Someone Smile:
And 40 More Ways to Be a Peaceful Person

Judy Lalli
    

Douglas L. Mason-Fry
    

The White Feather
  

 Ruth Eitzen
  

Allan Eitzen
  

The King of Prussia and A Peanut Butter Sandwich
  

Alice Fleming
 

Ronald Himler
 

Peace Begins with You
  

 Katherine Scholes
 

Robert Ingpen 
 

A Child's Guide to Conflict Resolution:
How to Turn War Into Peace

Louise Armstrong
 

Bill Basso
 

Different Just Like Me
  

 Lori Mitchell
                                 

 
 

Building Friends
(A Habitat for Humanity Book)

Ronald Kidd
 

Cornelius Van Wright
Ying-Hwa Hu

Who Belongs Here?  An American Story
  

Margy Burns Knight
 

Anne Sibley O'Brien
 

Faith the Cow
  

 Susan Bame Hoover
 

Maggie Sykora
 

The Tower 
  

 Richard Paul Evans
 

Jonathan Linton
  

Feathers
  

Heather Forest
 

Marcia Cutchin
 

King of the Playground
  

 Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
 

Nola Langner Malone
 

The Goat Lady
  

 Jane Bregoli
 

 

If Nathan Were Here
  

 Mary Bahr
 

Karen A Jerome
 

Say Something
  

 Peggy Moss
 

Lea Lyon
  

For Every Child, A Better World
  

 Louise Gikow
Ellen Weiss

Bruce McNally
 

Why?
  

 Nikolai Popov
 

 

New Kid in Town
  

 Claire Freedman
 

Kristina Stephenson
 

Rosa
  

 Nikki Giovanni
 

Bryan Collier
 

This is The Dream
  

 Diane Z. Shore
Jessica Alexander

James Ransome
 

Talking Walls
  

Margy Burns Knight 
 

Anne Sibley O'Brien 
 

Voices in the Park
  

 Anthony Browne